op ed review 8/4
THIS WEEK’S NEWS
New scandal: “E-mails
Suggest Collusion Between Federal Election Commission and the IRS to Target
Conservative Groups”
The sequester has "cost jobs," says President
Obama, and "gutted investments in education and science and medical
research." But somehow he’s earmarked $500 million for Hamas terrorists.
Circumventing Congress and with no fanfare, President Obama last week issued an
executive order enabling him to send an additional $500 million directly to the
Palestinian Authority in the West Bank — much of which you can bet will wind up
going to the Iranian-backed Hamas terrorist organization.
NYC welfare food is shipped in barrels to the Dominican Republic
- then sold on the black market
In an astonishing turnaround, Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler
(R-Wa) — who just weeks ago learned that her unborn child was suffering a
lung-development condition that’s typically fatal at birth — announced Monday
that her daughter was born alive and continues to thrive two weeks later. “She
is every bit a miracle,” the Washington state Republican
said.
According to the logic of politics,
Leticia Perez should have handily won the heavily Democratic and Hispanic
district in California’s central valley, and her failure to do so has
Republicans eager to develop a victory template for struggling GOP candidates
elsewhere in the deep-blue state and across the country. Fresno cherry farmer
and cattle rancher Andy Vidak, who is fluent in Spanish, said he captured the
state Senate seat in last week’s closely watched runoff vote by connecting with
Hispanic voters with a “common-sense” approach that focused on job creation,
affordable energy and opposition to big government. He got a big assist from
other GOP officeholders and hundreds of Spanish-speaking Republican volunteers
going door to door, making pitches in Spanish where necessary in the 60 percent
Hispanic district.
Mark Levin, who hosts one of America´s top radio talk shows
and is considered by supporters to be the people´s pundit on the Constitution,
is rallying his 8.5 million-strong audience to demand an historic convention of
state governments to halt the "oppressive power" of the federal
government.
Nearly two-thirds of Republicans want their party to change
its direction, and more than half say they want the party to become more
conservative, according to a new poll. When asked if Republicans just need to
make a stronger case on their positions or whether they need to reconsider some
of those positions, 59 percent of GOP voters surveyed in a Pew Research Center
poll said the party needs to reconsider some policies, while 36 percent said it
just needs to make a stronger case. Sixty-seven percent said the party needs to
address major problems as opposed
Saudi Prince admits: “Fracking (in the US) Is Threat To Kingdom.”
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THIS WEEK’S FEATURED COLUMN
Investor’s Business Daily
7/29
Few comparisons have been as odious as the one offered by
the president linking one of the great mass murderers of history to one of
America's Founding Fathers and authors of our liberty. Nazi Germany and
Imperial Japan were mortal and inhumane enemies who joined civilization after
their hideous barbarism was defeated.
They renounced their former brutality, acknowledged their
guilt and shame, and became our strongest allies as they genuinely embraced
liberty and democracy. They did not forget their past. They repudiated it.
Vietnam
has never repudiated its past while celebrating a faux victory over an American
enemy that was never defeated on the battlefield but only in the halls of a
Congress that abandoned an ally and snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
President Obama met with his Vietnamese counterpart, President Truong Tan Sang,
last Thursday in the same Oval office where LBJ picked bombing targets in a war
he micromanaged into futility. The 44th president conveniently forgot
Vietnamese history and slandered ours by linking a founder of our democracy,
Thomas Jefferson, to the mass murderer Ho Chi Minh.
Sang had brought Obama a copy of a letter sent to President
Truman from Ho in which the communist dictator spoke hopefully of cooperation
with America.
Obama, stopping short of yet another apology, mused about what might have been,
and noted "we discussed the fact that Ho Chi Minh was actually inspired by
the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution, and the words of Thomas
Jefferson."
That's technically true and historically accurate. Ho Chi
Minh did frame the earliest portions of the 1945 Vietnam Declaration of
Independence on the actual Declaration of Independence written by Jefferson in 1776. But while the future third president
spoke of inalienable rights granted by his and our Creator, he meant it. Ho Chi
Minh was only serious about the glory of the state.
Come to think of it, Obama is too, often leaving the word
"Creator" out of any mention of our inalienable rights as mentioned
in the declaration while he routinely ignores the Constitution and its restriction
on his and federal powers. To be charitable, one could claim Obama was just
trying to humor a guest, as Trent Lott once did to Strom Thurmond. But was it
necessary to praise a man who killed approximately half a million
people in an effort to consolidate his power, or to suggest ideological
similarities between the architect of mass carnage and an author of liberty?
In consolidating his dictatorial power in North Vietnam, Ho went after
landowners, intellectuals, school teachers, businessmen, civic leaders, anyone
who might pose future opposition to his thuggish rule. Those who would not
publicly confess their crimes against the state and the people were often
brutally executed. By early November 1956, when residents of An Giang province,
which included Ho's birthplace village of Nam Dan, refused to pay what they
considered oppressive taxes, Ho sent troops to collect, then sent in an army
division, shooting. About 6,000 unarmed villagers were killed in a massacre
obscured by the Soviet Union's suppression of Hungary.
After Ho's death in 1969, his successors did not miss a
beat. Congressional Democrats and their allies in the media, such as the
venerable Walter Cronkite, who had already proclaimed the war lost, helped
ensure South Vietnam's defeat and ushered in an era of mass carnage, boat
people and re-education camps that resulted in more death after the war than
during it. After Saigon's "liberation," the summary executions of
tens of thousands of South Vietnamese began. Hundreds of thousands more were
forced into re-education camps as 1 million boat people fled on anything that
would float, with countless thousands perishing in the South China Sea. And let
us not forget the killing fields of Cambodia, where 3 million were slaughtered.
This is the legacy of the man Obama said was inspired by
Thomas Jefferson.
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FROM OTHER COLUMNS
“In 2008….the IRS paid $2.14 billion in (Child Tax Credit)
money to 1.53 million illegal aliens; in 2009, it paid $2.86 billion to 1.85
million illegal aliens; and in 2010, it paid $4 billion to 2.18 million illegal
aliens. Over all nine years the IG audited,
the IRS paid $14.228 billion in ACTC money to illegal aliens. When it comes to enforcing the immigration
law, our government cannot find illegal aliens. When it comes to redistributing
wealth to them, the IRS knows exactly where to send the checks.”
-Terrence Jeffrey
"Have you noticed that the Internal Revenue Service
scandal seems to be getting ever closer to the White House? The IRS originally
tried to set up 'rogue employees in Cincinnati' as fall guys. But in congressional
testimony, they revealed that the targeting of dissenting groups was directed
from Washington. ... As this column has argued before, the higher this scandal
goes, the better it is for the country. We say that ... but because the
president can be held accountable if it turns out he or his top aides
essentially instructed the IRS to steal the 2012 election. A corrupt
administration can be dealt with, as Richard Nixon's was 40 years ago. By
contrast, if career IRS employees acted on their own, it means the integrity of
American democracy itself is threatened by an out-of-control administrative
state. In that case, how to solve the problem is not at all clear."
-James Taranto
"Disgustingly, black politicians, civil rights leaders,
liberals and the president are talking nonsense about 'having a conversation
about race.' That's beyond useless. Tell me how a conversation with white
people is going to stop black predators from preying on blacks. How is such a
conversation going to eliminate the 75 percent illegitimacy rate? What will
such a conversation do about the breakdown of the black family (though
'breakdown' is not the correct word, as the family doesn't form in the first
place)? Only black people can solve our problems."
-Walter E. Williams
"The family is a broken mess nationwide. Why should it
remain intact among the politicians who championed its destruction? ... Shame
depends on peer pressure. And peer pressure requires standards. When the standards
only exist on television, then shame is an illusion, a mask that politicians
can take off and put on again. And it's not as if we believe in shame anymore.
Not when the media and a legion of gullible idiots celebrated the defeat of the
Defense of Marriage Act. And if DOMA's death sparked some fireworks, why should
we expect marriage to be sacred? ... In a society without moral values, shame
is theater."
-Daniel Greenfield
"The triumph of liberty is not inevitable, though. And
empires do crumble. Rome's lasted the longest. The Ottoman Empire lasted 623
years. China's Song, Qing and Ming dynasties each lasted about 300 years. We've
lasted just 237 years so far.... In that time, we've accomplished amazing
things, but we shouldn't take our continued success for granted. Freedom and
prosperity are not natural. In human history, they're rare."
-John Stossel
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LEFTIST WATCH
“Over the last year or two, I have published a number of
emails that I have received from the Democratic Party. My purpose is to expose
the hateful, purposely ignorant tone in which the Democratic Party communicates
with its faithful. There is nothing like it on the Republican side: as it is
sometimes expressed, we are playing golf, while they are playing football.
Yesterday this email came in, another in an endless series designed to stir up
hate and to forestall any rational consideration of public policy issues. The
subject heading is “kick in the teeth.”
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ARTICLES
ABC Still Corrupting Zimmerman case
Limbaugh: “If the
Majority of the American People are
Against Obamacare, Why are the Republicans
So Afraid to Oppose It?”
WSJ Henninger: If we
learned anything about Barack Obama in his first term it is that when he starts
repeating the same idea over and over, what´s on his mind is something else.
The first term´s over-and-over subject was "the wealthiest 1%." Past
some point, people wondered why he kept beating these half-dead horses. After
the election, we knew. It was to propagandize the targeted voting base that
would provide his 4% popular-vote margin of victory—very young voters and
minorities. They believed. He won. The second-term
over-and-over..is the shafting of the middle class. But the real purpose here
isn't the speeches' parboiled proposals. It is what he says the shafting of the
middle class is forcing him to do. It is forcing him to "act"—to
undertake an unprecedented exercise of presidential power in domestic
policy-making. ObamaCare was legislated. In the second term, new law will come
from him. Please don't complain later
that you didn't see it coming.
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NOTEWORTHY WEBSITES
Top 25 Influential Women of the GOP
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WISE WORDS
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act
responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
-Plato
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LATE NITE
Leno: Anthony Weiner
has been caught in yet another sexting scandal. At the beginning of this
campaign he said that other texts and photos were likely to come out. Well,
they have. Finally, a politician who keeps his promises! ... Anthony Weiner
said yesterday that he wants closure. If he wants closure, he should start with
his zipper.
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